ahorcar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,238
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
ahorcar is aSpanishverb. It means: Colgar por el cuello hasta provocar la muerte. Pronounced [aoɾˈkaɾ]. Often confused with ahorra and aportar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahorcar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aoɾˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ahorcar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aoɾˈkaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,238 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ahorcar, with forms such as "ahhorcar", "ahocrar", and "ahoracr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ahorra", "aportar", "ahorrar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ahorcar, spelled A-H-O-R-C-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Colgar por el cuello hasta provocar la muerte.
- 2(En el juego de dominó) Impedir a una pareja la posibilidad de poner en juego uno de los dobles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahhorcar,ahocrar,ahoracr,ahorcarr,ahorccar,ahorcra,ahorrcar,ahrocar,aohrcar,haorcar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ahorcar
Misspelling Variants of "ahorcar"
Frequency rank: #42,238 in Spanish
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